Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 7 - Period 55, Unit 9: At home and away - Lesson 1: A holiday in Nha Trang (A1)

Period: 55	Date: 15/01/2005
UNIT 9: AT HOME AND AWAY
LESSON 1: A HOLIDAY IN NHA TRANG (A 1)
I. Objectives:
	1. Education aim:
	2. Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students can:
	˜ talk about past events and experiences.
	˜ know how to use the past simple tense
II. Language contents:
	1. Vocabulary:	delicious, gift.
2. Grammar:	Past simple tense.
	3. Structures:	(none) 
III. Techniques:	eliciting, questioning & answering, matching, role play.
IV. Teaching aids:	pictures, cassette.
V. Time:	45 minutes
VI. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm – up
- Have students match the verbs in column A and their past form in the column B. Then give their meanings.
A 
B 
1. Be 
2. Do
3. Have
4. Buy
5. Think
6. Take
7. Go
8. See
9. Eat
10. Wear
11. Put
12. Remember
13. Look
14. Visit
15. Return
16. Arrive
17. Stop
18. Talk
a. Took
b. Looked
c. Stopped
d. Did
e. Remembered
f. Bought
g. Visited
h. Arrived
i. Was / Were
j. Had
k. Returned
l. Saw
m. Talked
n. Ate
o. Thought
p. Wore
q. Went
r. Put
- Ask students to give feedback 
1+i , 2+d , 3+j , 4+f , 5+o , 6+a ,
 7+q , 8+l , 9+n , 10+p , 11+r , 12+e , 
13+b , 14+g , 15+k , 16+h , 17+c , 18+m.
- Ask students to give the meanings of the verbs.
- Elicit the past form of the verbs:
 Regular Verbs : V + ED
 Irregular Verbs : V2 
- Get students read all the verbs above
Presentation
- Ask pre-questions 
1. What do you always do in the summer?
2. Do you like traveling?
3. (Show the picture in the book) Do you know which place it is? (Nha Trang)
4. What can you do when we visit Nha Trang?
 (go sightseeing / swim in the sea / go to Tri Nguyen Aquarium / see Cham Temple /  )
- Ask students to listen to the dialogue and tick (P) what Liz’s family did in Nha Trang.
- Play the tape for students three times.
 + visited Nha Trang Beach.
 + ate food. (P) 
 + saw Cham Temple. (P)
 + visited Tri Nguyen Aquarium. (P)
 + visited friends.
 + bought a lot of souvenirs for friends. (P)
- Ask students to give feedback 
- Elicit that the things which Liz told to Ba happened in the past. So the verbs are used in the past simple tense.
- Elicit the usage of the past simple past tense.
“The past simple tense expresses an action that completely finished in the past. This tense always goes with: yesterday, last night/week/year, ago”
 Ex: 
 I visited my friends yesterday.
 We didn’t go to school last week.
- Ask students to give some more examples to know how to use the past simple tense.
Practice
- Ask students to practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Call on some pairs to practice before the class.
- Ask students to read the dialogue to number the sentences.
- Ask students to give feedback 
1. Liz went to Nha Trang.
2. Liz visited Tri Nguyen Aquarium.
3. Liz bought souvenirs.
4. Liz returned to Ha Noi.
5. Liz talked to Ba about her vacation.
- Have students do the exercises A1,2 / p.53 (workbook) 
- Get students give feedback 
- Correct mistakes if possible.
Production
- Ask students to tell their partners what they did last summer vacation (2 or 3 sentences)
- Ask some students to write them on the board.
- Pair works. 
- Give feedback 
- Listen and write. 
- Read chorally and individually. 
- Think and answer the questions. 
- Individual work 
- Give feedback
- Listen to the teacher. 
- Listen and write. 
- Think and give some more examples.
- Pair works. 
- Give feedback 
- Pair works. 
- Individual work 
- Write on the board.
Homework
1. Learn by heart the past form of the verbs.
2. Redo the exercises in the workbook.
3. Write five sentences about what you did last summer vacation.
Remarks